EXCLUSIVE MODERATOR TV, witness for Rapid to TAS not to give the money to the “second” of Craiova! »” He also helped us in the files won with Tibi Bălan and Păcurar “

The disciplinary commission today has on the agenda “the fast file-Ionuț Stancu”, in which the Giulestii are on the verge of submitting and blocking the transfers for the non-payment of about 110,000 euros to his former player from 2004-2011.

It is a final decision TAS, already validated by the FRF appeal commission, and from the documents of the case an unusual detail also transpires: in the Lausanne procedures, the Rapid recruited as a witness to journalist Dan Filoti, moderator and reporter to Digi Sport!

Basically, a journalist from the holder of TV rights for Liga 1 has brought to the team to try to win a dispute against the current second coach of Craiova University, Club Rival Giulești in the championship!

“Mr.” Dan Filotu “did not present any relevant argument”

Dan Filoti is part of the team of moderators of Digi Sport. Source: Facebook/Dan

In the documents consulted by GSP, Filoti's name appears on three occasions. The first time – at the indication of the people who were heard on January 15 in video. Here, the journalist Digi is mistaken as “Mr. Dan Filotu, quoted by the respondent of rank 1”, that is, quickly. The Giuleștean club was then represented by the lawyer Marian Mihail, the current legal director of the group, and by Diana Florescu, legal adviser.

Then, he is nominated in the description of the meeting: “The respondent indicates the witness he intends to call (the statement is annexed), Mr. Dan Filoti, whose identification data are presented by him in the declaration.”

The passages from the TAS documents that indicate the involvement of Dan Filoti in the file “Rapid – Ionuț Stancu”, the phase from Lausanne

And further: “Therefore, the date of the establishment of the Academy Rapid and the fact that it has evolved in the fourth league in Romania in the 2017-2018 season are irrelevant, because-according to the arguments invoked by the respondent of rank 1-the Rapid Academy never succeeded the initial debtor and no proof was presented by the respondent of rank 1. respect ”.

The key scenario targeted by Rapid had been exactly linked to the succession to the old club, bankrupt in 2011, criterion according to which Tas Aviza or not the debt of the current Rapid towards Stancu.

“He also helped us in the files won with Tibi Bălan and Păcurar”

Mihail Marian leads the Legal Department of Rapid // Photo: GSP

How did Dan Filoti come, who publicly assumed, over time, quick sympathies, to appear in a file with potential serious implications in Liga 1?

Explains Marian Mihail, the legal director of the “cherries”: “I needed an extensive witness to attest to the factual situation regarding the public's perception of the new company quickly. I sought to be someone who participated in the last European championship and to be in the theme with the history of the club, plus that it is a person from the entity holding the rights on League 1”.

Complete: “I used Filoti to try to prove a few details about continuity and to tie such a possible prescription in the litigation with Stancu, only that the court otherwise calculated this detail. All the thesis has proven irrelevant, in the perception of TAS.”

Dan Filoti was not paid quickly. There was an online hearing, which assumed any costs. Anyway, he helped us as a witness and in other files at TAS, by written statements, as in disputes with Tibi Bălan and Păcurar, which we won
Marian Mihail, Rapid legal director

Filoti: “A journalistic experience, I have nothing against Stancu”

Dan Filoti in an interview with Anghel Iordănescu, former coach in Giulești. Source: Facebook/Dan

In turn, Dan Filoti stated for GSP: “The Legal Director of the Rapid, Marian Mihail, asked me if I can formulate a point of view only related to the continuity aspects between the old and the new Rapid. I think, with the supporters, there is a continuity. That was all I did. If you want, I also took it as a journalistic experience, to see from the inside.”

Filoti added: “It is not my job if it was a lost or won trial, I am no judge, I have absolutely nothing with Ionuț Stancu, with whom I know myself from the time spent in Giulești. It is true that I was witness to Tibi Bălan and Păcurar, but in the same sense.

However, in general, I am on the side of players in litigations. I did not accept the proposal of the Rapid in the idea that I am against someone, but, I repeat, just to talk about this problem of continuity as a journalist with notoriety in Romania, who knows what has happened at Rapid for over 30 years. I have never hidden my sympathies for this club, but that has nothing to do with this subject. ”